Is alfaview European?

Verified European

Yes. alfaview is under verified European control.

The operator is alfaview gmbh in Karlsruhe, Mannheim HRB 730903. Alfaview confirms that alfacube GmbH owns 100% of alfaview and Nikolaos (Niko) Fostiropoulos owns 100% of alfacube. Public group disclosures also identify him as owner, supporting European control. The supplied register extract is dated 15 September 2026; the shareholder lists are marked as 2018 drafts, not newly certified current filings. The DPA calls alfatraining a parent, but the clarified direct shareholder is alfacube. German law applies; the German legal texts are binding.

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Controlled by: Nikolaos (Niko) Fostiropoulos, via alfacube GmbH
Control sits in: Germany
Seat: Germany
Last checked: 24 September 2026

About alfaview

alfaview is video conferencing software made in Germany, with separate plans for businesses, non-profit organisations and education. Paid plans are priced per meeting room rather than per participant, which keeps the cost predictable for groups that meet often.

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Video conferencing software from Germany

alfaview is European controlled and EU hosted. Its published hosting statement places the core conferencing service in Germany; the data-processing agreement permits processing within the EU/EEA. AWS Route 53 is used for DNS and availability, while mobile app stores and credit-card payments are separate, optional channels. These distinctions support the ownership and hosting labels, but not an entirely European supply-chain claim.

Instead of: Zoom
Pricing: The personal Free plan supports 50 participants. Business One costs 12 euro per room per year, equivalent to 1 euro per month, with annual billing only. Professional costs 3.90 euro per room monthly or 39 euro yearly; business prices exclude VAT. Non-profit and education discounts are available.
Suits: Schools and organisations with recurring meetings

Free plan

Operations

Who runs the parts of the service we could observe from outside, checked 25 September 2026. A provider's control can differ from where its servers stand.

Part	Provider	Provider control	What we saw
Supporting service	alfatraining Bildungszentrum GmbH	European	The DPA names alfatraining for group infrastructure, support and development and uses the term parent company. Alfaview now confirms alfacube GmbH as its direct shareholder, wholly owned by Nikolaos (Niko) Fostiropoulos; the DPA wording does not establish a different legal ownership chain. Public group disclosures independently identify him as owner. [1] [2] [3]
Core hosting	SysEleven GmbH · Germany (alfaview core-hosting disclosure); DPA contractual scope: EU/EEA	European	The DPA lists media, real-time events, account databases and backend services. Ownership reviewed 25 September 2026: secunet owns all of SysEleven; its 2025 financial statements identify Giesecke+Devrient as 75.12% shareholder and trace the controlling interest to the von Mitschke-Collande family. This supports European provider control. Hosting location is supported separately by alfaview's German core-hosting statement and EU/EEA DPA. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Core hosting	noris network AG · Germany (alfaview core-hosting disclosure); DPA contractual scope: EU/EEA	European	The DPA lists media, real-time events, account databases and backend services. Ownership reviewed 25 September 2026: noris explicitly describes wholly German private ownership and owner management. This supports European provider control beyond its German legal seat; individual shareholder percentages were not verified. Alfaview separately states German core hosting under its EU/EEA DPA. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Core hosting	Hetzner Online GmbH · Germany (alfaview core-hosting disclosure); DPA contractual scope: EU/EEA	European	The March 2026 DPA lists this provider for TLS-encrypted audio/video and real-time events, customer databases, metadata, authentication and user/billing services. The DPA commits processing to the EU/EEA; the provider's listed German business address is not a verified server location. Existing reviewed Hetzner family ownership is retained. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Core hosting	OVH GmbH / OVHcloud · Germany (alfaview core-hosting disclosure); DPA contractual scope: EU/EEA	European	The March 2026 DPA lists this provider for TLS-encrypted audio/video and real-time events, customer databases, metadata, authentication and user/billing services. The DPA commits processing to the EU/EEA; the provider's listed German business address is not a verified server location. OVH's Cologne address identifies a German subsidiary of the French Klaba-controlled group. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Core hosting	IONOS Cloud GmbH · Germany (alfaview core-hosting disclosure); DPA contractual scope: EU/EEA	European	The March 2026 DPA lists this provider for TLS-encrypted audio/video and real-time events, customer databases, metadata, authentication and user/billing services. The DPA commits processing to the EU/EEA; the provider's listed German business address is not a verified server location. Existing reviewed control through United Internet and Ralph Dommermuth is retained. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Core hosting	Telekom Deutschland GmbH / Open Telekom Cloud · Germany (alfaview core-hosting disclosure); DPA contractual scope: EU/EEA	Unknown	The DPA names customer databases and uploaded files, with encrypted transmission and storage. It reserves future use for the other core services. The DPA commits processing to the EU/EEA; individual sites, backup allocation and ultimate voting control were not independently established. [1] [2] [3]
Public website	Myra Security GmbH	Unknown	Privacy policy names Myra for WAF, CDN and encrypted website transport. Root-domain DNS rechecked on 24 September 2026 returns 80.90.22.75 in AS20546, replacing the previous Hetzner address. DNS does not reveal the complete delivery chain or the conferencing backend. Myra's ultimate control remains unverified. [1] [2] [3]
Incoming email	Hetzner Mail	European	MX 10 www118.your-server.de observed on 24 September 2026. This establishes the public incoming route, not every mailbox storage or backup location. [1] [2]
Outgoing email	Sweego / Mindbaz	Unknown	DPA names Mindbaz in Lille, France for account, invitation, guest-link, password-reset and deletion emails. Root-domain SPF is v=spf1 mx ~all; that limited DNS authorization does not replace the contractual transactional-mail disclosure. Existing Mindbaz ultimate-control uncertainty is retained. [1] [2] [3]
Authoritative DNS	Amazon Web Services Route 53	Not European	The four awsdns nameservers were reconfirmed on 24 September 2026. Alfaview confirms Route 53 provides authoritative DNS, routing and health checks, outside its conference media/data path. This is an active, non-optional service-availability dependency and involves DNS queries/metadata; it is not evidence of AWS hosting conference content. The claim that no suitable European replacement exists is the vendor's assessment, not independently established. [1] [2]
Supporting service (optional)	EML Speech Technology GmbH	European	Optional transcription by the group affiliate. Privacy policy states German processing and no transfer outside the EU/EEA. The Free-plan clause permits speech snippets of 30 seconds or less and associated transcripts to improve models, described by the company as anonymized. That clause remains published although the current Free pricing table excludes live transcription. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Supporting service (optional)	DeepL SE	Unknown	Optional translation can send audio streams and transcripts, as listed in the DPA. DeepL is a German operator with international investors, including Benchmark, IVP and Index Ventures. The reviewed company disclosure does not establish a controlling voting majority. Control is therefore not verified; international investment alone is not proof of non-European control. Alfaview's DPA specifies EU/EEA processing; a Cologne address alone is not a server-location check. [1] [2] [3]
Message delivery (optional)	sipgate GmbH	European	Optional booked telephone dial-in; the DPA identifies participant telephone numbers sent to sipgate. Ownership reviewed 25 September 2026: sipgate names founders Tim Mois and Thilo Salmon, describes continuing owner-managed independence, and states it has financed itself without external investors. These disclosures support European provider control. [1] [2] [3]
Supporting service	Zammad GmbH	Unknown	German support-software provider founded by Martin Edenhofer. Alfaview names it for support chat and tickets, including IP addresses, messages and contact details. A secondary registry summary reports Edenhofer as sole shareholder. The official register lists a shareholder filing from 9 January 2015, but its contents could not be retrieved in this review. This is an ownership-verification gap, not evidence of a non-European owner; customer-specific hosting was not independently checked. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Supporting service	Friendly Captcha GmbH	Unknown	German provider founded by Benedict Padberg and Guido Zuidhof; its employer disclosure describes a fully bootstrapped business. A secondary registry summary reports Interlink GmbH (Germany) at 75% and Zuidhof Digital B.V. (Netherlands) at 25%. The underlying holding-company control was not independently verified from primary ownership records. No non-European controller was established. Alfaview names form-abuse prevention and states EU/EEA processing. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Supporting service	Plausible Insights OÜ	European	Privacy policy names Plausible for client technical diagnostics with an opt-out and for website analytics, processed in the EU. Existing reviewed founder ownership is retained. The policy also names Matomo without identifying a separate hosting supplier. [1] [2]
Payments (optional)	Clearhaus A/S / Unzer / KKR	Not European	Optional credit-card payment channel; the privacy policy also documents invoice and SEPA direct debit. Clearhaus is a Danish independent controller for transaction numbers and card data, separate from conference content. Unzer acquired Clearhaus and identifies KKR as majority owner. Its non-European control therefore extends beyond the Visa/Mastercard networks, despite the Danish legal seat. [1] [2] [3]
Payments	Frisbii Germany GmbH	Unknown	Privacy policy names Frisbii as revenue-management processor. German legal address does not establish ultimate ownership or all payment-data locations. [1]
App platform (optional)	Apple App Store	Not European	Optional mobile-app distribution channel. Desktop downloads and browser access are also offered. The store processes download, account and device information under its own policy; this does not establish processing of conference content. It remains a distribution dependency for users choosing this store. [1] [2]
App platform (optional)	Google Play	Not European	Optional mobile-app distribution channel. Desktop downloads and browser access are also offered. The store processes download, account and device information under its own policy; this does not establish processing of conference content. It remains a distribution dependency for users choosing this store. [1] [2]

Core hosting and optional channels are assessed separately. The DPA names SysEleven, noris, Hetzner, OVHcloud, IONOS and Open Telekom Cloud; alfaview states its conferencing infrastructure is in Germany. AWS DNS remains an active availability dependency, outside conference content processing according to alfaview. App stores are optional distribution channels and process store/account metadata. Clearhaus handles optional card payments; invoice and SEPA are also documented. Its Danish address does not remove the KKR control link through Unzer. Optional transcription, translation and dial-in involve EML, DeepL and sipgate. Myra protects the website, Hetzner receives mail, Sweego sends transactional mail and Frisbii manages revenue. The supplier review confirms European control for SysEleven, noris and sipgate. Zammad and Friendly Captcha show evidence of European founder ownership, but the underlying ownership records were not independently verified; DeepL discloses international investors without a controlling voting majority. These gaps do not establish non-European ownership. TLS and encrypted storage are documented; client-held end-to-end encryption was not established. The privacy policy retains a Free-plan speech-model improvement clause despite the previously reviewed Free table excluding live transcription.

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